Oh my, oh my. Voilà un bon exemple de ce qu’on peut attendre d’une présidence Obama:

We have not been willing to put our priorities properly. We have not been willing to say … « Hey Russia, we won’t expand NATO into the Ukraine and Georgia, right next to your borders, if you cooperate with us on Iran. » …

I think Iran and Israel are a hell of a lot more important than expanding NATO to Russia’s borders. Why should we? What do we need it for?

C’est vrai quoi, coopérez avec nous sur l’Iran, en échange on vous donne l’Ukraine, les Etats baltes, la Géorgie… faites votre marché! C’est ça les deals futurs d’Obama. Et puis quand viendra le temps de faire un deal avec l’Iran, il vendra Israël ? Et avec le Venezuela, ce sera la Colombie ? Et quid de Taïwan ? Je lisais un article de Ralph Peters dans le NY Post plus tôt, et je me disais « il exagère ». Et puis je me dis que non:

Relations with Russia are also at a high unthinkable a mere four years ago. Moscow’s legitimate concerns for the welfare of its citizens in the « near abroad, » as well as for ethnic Russians persecuted by so-called free democracies, fully justified its peace-preservation military deployments into Ukraine and other regional states. The subsequent referendums on re-unification with Russia, while displaying a few inevitable irregularities, have been judged free and fair by the Jimmy Carter Memorial Foundation.

While the deployment of Russian forces into the NATO-member Baltic states to protect ethnic Russians proved controversial, President Obama’s personal intervention kept us – and NATO – out of war. Partisan charges of « Finlandization » distort the generous terms of the neutrality guarantees Moscow provides for the former NATO members.

Mercredi matin nous en saurons plus…